tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481706068105246695.post6245251701173401552..comments2024-03-27T07:35:21.832-07:00Comments on Plants are the Strangest People: Pretty picture: Paphiopedilum Lawless Zauberflötemr_subjunctivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14113199755474482747noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481706068105246695.post-19027714776291096842012-01-10T16:20:19.936-08:002012-01-10T16:20:19.936-08:00Kenneth, you are about right in your Star Trek tax...Kenneth, you are about right in your Star Trek taxonomy, I would say.Patnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481706068105246695.post-40157156682160351332012-01-10T06:14:56.433-08:002012-01-10T06:14:56.433-08:00The mother in that English version looked like a c...The mother in that English version looked like a cross between a Klingon and a Cardassian. But maybe that was just the video quality on my iPhone.Kenneth Moorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11619410362453458358noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481706068105246695.post-18061236314983577572012-01-09T22:58:23.206-08:002012-01-09T22:58:23.206-08:00Looks like a wasp to me. A sexy wasp...Looks like a wasp to me. A sexy wasp...Emilynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481706068105246695.post-67236833508086369202012-01-09T12:06:43.223-08:002012-01-09T12:06:43.223-08:00I am not an opera fan, to say the least, but there...I am not an opera fan, to say the least, but there is something rather compelling about the Queen of the Night Aria from The Magic Flute. My last ex got bothered on the bus because some lowlifes were playing their ghetto blaster so she drowned them out by singing this Aria. I could hardly breathe for laughing. Her comment afterwards "I thought we were all supposed to bring our own music.&Patnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481706068105246695.post-81148746061373203182012-01-09T10:00:22.622-08:002012-01-09T10:00:22.622-08:00Haha! Every time I try to update my plant list, my...Haha! Every time I try to update my plant list, my thought process greatly resembles this post. Cultivar names can be terrible enough and taxonomists only try to further complicate things more. <br /><br />Acanthorhipsalis incahuasina turns into Rhipsalis monacantha which then turns into Lepismium monacanthum and next thing I know I'm at some plant society trying to trade a plant that no one&Stephaniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11008182471600888118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481706068105246695.post-22987019981566384832012-01-09T09:51:59.149-08:002012-01-09T09:51:59.149-08:00Google Translate is correct there (kinda sad, it&#...Google Translate is correct there (kinda sad, it's sometimes so hilariously wrong), and I might add that it's the name of an opera by Mozart. Not that I know a thing about operas, except that they'll make me run away screaming, but I was tortured with Austrian composers all through school.Ivynettlehttp://ivynettle.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481706068105246695.post-68134016856650325652012-01-09T09:23:52.398-08:002012-01-09T09:23:52.398-08:00It could actually be an alien. You never know.It could <i>actually</i> be an alien. You never know.Tomhttp://theatrumbotanicum.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com